Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam lyrics
- Life Wasted
- World Wide Suicide
- Comatose
- Severed Hand
- Marker In The Sand
- Parachutes
- Unemployable
- Big Wave
- Gone
- Wasted Reprise
- Army Reserve
- Come Back
- Inside Job
Life Wasted
You're always saying that there's something wrong
I'm starting to believe it's your plan all along
Death came around, forced to hear its song
And know tomorrow can't be depended on
Seen the home inside your head
All locked doors and unmade beds
Open sores unattended
Let me say just once that
I have faced it, a life wasted, I'm never going back again
I escaped it, a life wasted, I'm never going back again
Having tasted, a life wasted, I'm never going back again
The world awaits just up the stairs
Leave the pain for someone else
Nothing back there for you to find
Or was it you you left behind?
You're always saying you're too weak to be strong
You're harder on yourself than just about anyone
Why swim the channel just to get this far?
Halfway there, why would you turn around?
Darkness comes in waves
Tell me, why invite it to stay?
You're one with negativity
Yes, comfort is an energy
But why let the sad song play?
I have faced it, a life wasted, I'm never going back again
Oh I escaped it, a life wasted, I'm never going back again
Having tasted, a life wasted, I'm never going back again
Oh I erased it, a life wasted, I'm never going back again
World Wide Suicide
I felt the earth on Monday, it moved beneath my feet
In the form of a morning paper laid out for me to see
Saw his face in a corner picture, I recognised the name
Could not stop staring at the face I'd never see again
It's a shame to awake in a world of pain
What does it mean when a war has taken over?
It's the same everyday in a hell manmade
What can be saved, and who will be left to hold her?
The whole world, world over
It's a world wide suicide
Medals on a wooden mantle, next to a handsome face
That the president took for granted, writing checks that others pay
And in all the madness, thought becomes numb and naive
So much to talk about, nothing for to say
It's the same every day and the wave won't break
Tell you to pray, while the devil's on their shoulder
Laying claim to the take that our soldiers save
Does not equate, and the truth's already out there
The whole world, world over
It's a world wide suicide
The whole world, world over
It's a world wide suicide
Looking in the eyes of the fallen
You got to know there's another, another, another, another, another way
It's a shame to awake in a world of pain
What does it mean when a war has taken over?
It's the same everyday and the wave won't break
Tell you to pray, while the devil's on their shoulder
The whole world, world over
It's a world wide suicide
The whole world, world over
It's a world wide suicide
Comatose
Consider me an object.
Put me in a vacuum.
Free of all conditions.
Free of air and friction.
Yeah, I'll be hanging upside down.
And there I will swing for all eternity.
Feel it rising, yeah, next stop falling.
Feel it rising, comatose, with no fear of falling.
Consider me an abscess.
Leave me in my vacuum.
Blood on all the pistons.
Running my transmission.
Feel it rising, yeah, next stop falling.
Feel it rising, comatose, with no fear of falling.
Feel it rising, yeah, next stop falling.
Feel It rising.
High above, I'll break the law.
If it's illegal to be in love.
Leave the hatred on the cross.
Yeah, I'll be hanging upside down,
And here I will swing for all eternity.
Feel it rising, yeah, next stop falling.
Feel it rising, comatose, with no fear of falling.
Feel it rising, yeah, next stop falling.
Feel it rising.
Something never thought you'd be part of.
Severed Hand
Big man stands behind an open door
Said, leave your lady on the cement floor
Got some kicks, want to take a ride?
I said, yeah!
Take your pick, leave yourself behind
I said, yeah!
I've no fear but for falling down
So look out below I am falling now
Oh please understand I just need, my friend,
A way a way a way home
Tried to walk, found a severed hand
Recognized it from the wedding band
Said it's ok, do you want some more?
I said, yeah!
Said You'll see dragons after 3 or 4
I said, yeah!
Understand I'm not falling down
I said, look around, the rooms taller now,
I can't close my eyes, 'cause I see the sound in waves
In waves, lets me stay calm
If I don't lose control
Explore and not explode
A preternatural other plane
With the power to maintain
Like a tear in all we know
Once dissolved we are free to grow
What is human, what is more?
I'll answer this when I get home
Marker In The Sand
There is a Marker,
no one sees it cause of sand
that has covered over
all the messages it kept
from misunderstanding,
what Original Truth was
And now expanding
in a faith, but not in love...
What went wrong?
Walking tightrope high
over moral ground.
Seeing visions of
falling up somehow.
Oh do come down
with the living, let
what is living love.
So unforgiving, yet
needing forgiveness first...
God, what do you say?
Those undecided
needn't have faith to be free.
And those misguided,
there was a plan for them to be...
Now you got both sides
claiming 'killing in god's name'.
But god is nowhere
to be found, conveniently...
What goes on?
Walking tightrope high
over moral ground.
Walk the bridges be-
-fore you burn them down!
Do come round
with the living, let
what is living love.
Unforgiving, yet
needing forgiveness first...
God, what do you say?
God, what do you say?
I feel a sickness...
A sickness coming over me
Like watching freedom
being sucked straight out to sea
And the solution?
Well, from me far would it be
But the delusion
is feeling dangerous to me
What goes wrong?
Walking tightrope high
over moral ground.
Seeing visions of
falling up somehow.
Oh, do come down
with the living, let
what is living love,
unforgiving...yet
needing forgiveness first?
Oh, what do you say?
God, what do you say?
What do you say?
Calling out, calling out
Calling out, calling out
Parachutes
Why deny all the troubles when combined
With the missing links it don’t feel like home now
That your gone all the troubles suddenly explained infinitum
You’re always wishing and never here at home
You all the dreams we shared and
lights we turned on
but the house is getting dark
and I don’t want to know your past
but together share the dawn
and I won’t need nothing else
cause when we’re dead
we would’ve had it all
And I wouldn't falling from the sky tell you
Parachutes have opened now
Heaven knows if there’s a ceiling
Come so low with the kneeling
Please know that I got all the friends I’m needing
Before my light go out
As the doors are closing now
And far away will be my home
And to grasp this, I don’t know
But I don’t need
Further back and forth, a wave will break on me today
And love
Wish the world could glow again with love
One can’t seem to have enough
And war
Break the sky and tell me what it's for
I’ll travel there on my own
And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
Unemployable
He's got a big gold ring which says Jesus Saves
And it's dented from the punch thrown at work that day
When he smashed the metal locker where he kept his things
After the big boss say "You best be on your way"
So this life is sacrifice
Oh yeah
Jumping trains just to survive
Well his wife and kids asleep but he's still awake
And his brain weighs the curse of thirty bills unpaid
Gets up, lights a cigarette, he's grown to hate
Thinking if he can't sleep, how will he ever dream again?
So this life is sacrificed
Oh yeah
To a stranger's bottom line
Oh yeah
I've seen the light, oho oh ohhhh oho oh ohhhh
I'm scared alive
Nearly dead
Oho oh ohhhh oho oh ohhhh
I've seen the light
Still alive
Yeah
So this life is sacrificed
Oh yeah
Was a dream that had to die
Oh yeah
I've seen the light, oho ohhh ohhhhh oho ohhh ohhhhh
I'm scared alive
Near to death
oOo ohhh ohhhhh oho ohhh ohhhhh
I've seen the light
Scared alive
Oho ohhh ohhhhh oooohoooo
I'm here to die
Here to die
Scared alive
Here to die
Here to die
Scared of life
Big Wave
I used to be crustacean
In an underwater nation
And I surf in celebration
Of a billion adaptations
Got me a big wave, ride me a big wave, got me a big wave
Got me a big wave, ride me a big wave, got me a big wave
I feel the need
Planted in me
Millions of years ago
Can't you see
The oceans size?
Defining time
And tide
Arising
Arms laid upon me
Being so kind
To let me ride
I scream in affirmation
Of connecting dislocations
And exceeding limitation
By achieving levitation
Got me a big wave, ride me a big wave, got me a big wave.
Got me a big wave, ride me a big wave, got me a big wave.
I feel the need
Planted in me
Millions of years ago
Can't you see
The oceans size?
Defining time
And tide
Arising
Arms laid upon me
Being so kind
To let me ride
Got me a ride
Gone
No more upset mornings
No more tired evenings
This American dream
I am disbelieving
When the gas in my tank
Feels like money in the bank
Gonna blow it all this time
Take me one last ride
For the lights of this city
They only look good when I'm speeding
Gonna leave em all behind me
Cause this time
I'm gone
Long gone
This time I'm letting go of it all
So long
Cause this time I'm gone
In the far off distance
As my tail-lights fade
No one thinks to witness
But they will someday
Feel like a question is forming
and the answers far
I will be what i could be
Once I get out of this town
For the lights of this city
They have lost all feeling
Gonna leave em all behind me
Cause this time
I'm gone
Long gone
This time I'm letting go of it all
So long
Long gone, I'm letting go of it all
Cause this time I'm gone
If nothing is everything
If nothing is everything, I'll have it all
If nothing is everything
If nothing is everything, I'll have it all
I am gone
Wasted Reprise
I have faced it
A life wasted
I'm never going back again
Having tasted
A life wasted
I'm never going back again
I escaped it
A life wasted
I'm never going back ... again
Army Reserve
How long must she stand
Before the ground, it gives way
To an endless fall
She can feel this
War on her face
The stars on her pillow
She's folding in darkness
Begging for slumber
I'm not blind
I can see it coming
Looks like lightning
In my child's eye
I'm not frantic
I can feel it coming
Violently shakes
My body
Her son's slanted
Always giving her
The sideways eye
The empty chair where dad sits
How loud can silence get?
And mom, she reassures
To contain him
But it's becoming a lie
She tells herself
And anyone else
Father is risking
His life for our freedoms
I'm not blind
I can see it coming
Looks like lightning
In my child's eye
I'm not frantic
I can feel it coming
Darling you'll save me
Come Back
If I keep holding out
Will the light shine through
Under this broken roof
Its only rain that I feel
I've been wishing out the days
Ohh ohh oh come back
I have been planning out
All that I'd say to you
Since you slipped away
Know that I still remain true
I've been wishing out the days
Please say that if you hadnt gone now
I wouldnt have lost you another way
From wherever you are
Ohhhh ohh ohh oh oh come back
And these days they linger on
And in the night ive been waiting for
The real possibility that I may meet you in my dreams
I go to sleep
If i dont fall apart, Will my memory stay clear
So you had to go, And I had to remain here
But the strangest thing today
So far away and yet you feel so close
And Im not gonna question any other way
There must be an open door
For you uhh uhh uhh.... To come back
And the days they linger on
And every night when Im waiting for
The real possibility that I may meet you in my dreams
Sometimes you're there and you're talking back to me
Come the morning I can swear that you're next to me
And its okayyyyyy
Its ok...its ok
Ohhh i need you....come back, come back
Ahhhhh I need you come back, come back
Ohhhh I need you come back, come back
Whoooo whooo whooo whoo
Whoooo whooo whooo whoo
Whoooo whooo whooo whoo
Inside Job
Underneath this smile lies everything
All my hopes and anger, pride and shame
Make myself a pact not to shut doors on the past
Just for today I am free
I will not lose my faith
It's an inside job today
I know this one thing well…
I used to try and kill love. the highest sin
Breathing insecurity out and in
Searching hope, I'm shown the way to run straight
Pursuing the greater way for all human light.
How I choose to feel is how I am.
How I choose to feel is how I am.
I will not lose my faith
It's an inside job today
Holding on, the light of night
On my knees to rise and fix my broken soul
Again
Let me run into the rain
To be a human light again
Let me run into the rain
To shine a human light today
Life comes from within your heart and desire
Life comes from within my heart and desire
Life comes from within your heart and desire